Martha Mayer Erlebacher
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Martha Mayer Erlebacher | |
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 Self Portrait, 2011, Nero pencil on paper | |
| Born | November 21, 1937 |
| Died | June 22, 2013 (aged 75) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse | Walter S. Erlebacher |
Martha Mayer Erlebacher (November 21, 1937 – June 22, 2013[1][2]) was an American painter. She attended Gettysburg College from 1955 to 1956. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. She also received an MFA from Pratt in 1963.[3] She is known for her trompe-l'œil still lifes and well as her representational figurative work of the nude body. She was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian and French painting traditions and well as by the realist Thomas Eakins.[4]
As a leading American realistic artist, she has exhibited her work over the past four decades at renowned art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.[5]
Erlebacher's work was used on the cover of The Figure: Painting Drawing and Sculpture, Contemporary Perspectives (2014).[6]
